Improvement in claw-hammers



UNITED STATES DEXTER XV. PARKER, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TOCHARLES PARKEILVOF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLAW-HAMMERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,427, dated February10, 1874 ,2 application filed January 7, 1874.

.State of Connecticut, have invented anew Improvement in Claw-Hammers,and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which saiddrawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a side view 5 and in Fig. tical central section.

This invention consists in a hammer formed from a metal body cast upon apreviously-prepared head inserted in the mold before casting, the bodyand head united by the irregular form of the head.

A is the hammer, of substantially the usual form; B, the head or face.This head is first formed from steel, with a projection, a, upon itsupper surface. The mold is made of the form of the hammer complete; thenthe head B is `placed in the mold in the position it is to occupy, andthe molten metal poured into the 2, a vermold ilows upon the uppersurface of the head,

iirml y attaching it thereto, and the completed hammer is removed fromthe mold. The head may be tempered to the desired extent, the same as asteel hammer, and for general use the hammer is as good as a forgedhammer, and is produced for about one-fourth the cost.

I have represented my invention as applied to claw-ham mers, but it maywith equal facility be applied to some other classes of hammers.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming :forming an articlepartly from cast and partly from wrought metal united by casting.

I claim as my invention- As an article of manufacture, the herein-described hammer, constructed by placing in the mold a previously-preparedhead, then pouring the met-al for the body into the mold, the body andhead united by the irregular form of the head, as described.

DEXTER W. PARKER.

fitnesses GEORGE C. MERRIAM, RALPH A. PALMER.

